It’s hard to understand what would make a teenage girl make up a story about multiple rape… to justify her truancy from school, but that is precisely what one girl did.

The girl who was 15 at the time has since been sentenced to a year’s house arrest adapted to being able to attend school. Her progress at school will determine whether her punishment be extended to include a correctional institution.

It was on the 10th of March last year in a unnamed town in Granada when the girl, accompanied by her father, went to the local police station to report that she had suffered multiple rape. The father, obviously, had believed all that his daughter had told him.

According to her police statement, she had been accosted by six individuals who had raped her on two occasions in an abandoned house.

She was immediately taken for a medical examination by a gynaeocologist but the tests turned up nothing that backed her statement, so she was taken back to the Guardia Civil post.

Questioned again, more closely, her account soon ran into contradictions and further questioning led to her confessing that she had made the whole thing up to cover up her absences from class over the previous two weeks.

The case didn’t get to a hearing stage as she admitted guilt, expressing her conformity with whatever punishment the minors’ judge would impose.

(News: Granada, Andalucia)